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Calum:
ok, now. i had a quick look on ebay and nobody appears to be selling an asante scsi network adaptor at the moment, so i will have to bide my time. however, i wanted to ask, because i don't want to end up buying a bunch of wrong stuff, are these two items OK to use for the 10BaseT hub part of this plan to get the mac working?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9737781139
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9738250279


QUESTION TWO:

is this the Asante SCSI adaptor?
http://www.cancomuk.com/products/search.htm?show=Falling%20Price&code=32002&Asante%20FriendlyNet%20AAUI%20Transceiver%20BNC

if it is then i will buy it immediately, however i notice it has BNC sockets (i think), so presumably i then have to get a 10BaseT hub which takes a BNC plug... will i be able to get one of these that can be used with my D-Link ethernet router? will it be incredibly expensive?

networking has always seemed highly confusing to me, more questions than answers!

thanks for your patience with my potential dumbness! :-D

bedouin:
The Netgear router would be nice since it's compact; I used to have one myself years ago.  You'll likely not want to plug anything else into it other than the Classic, so it's probably a good idea.

The link to the ethernet adapter will not work with the Classic.  It's for Macs that had an AAUI ethernet port.

You need to subscribe to one of the Low End Mac swap lists.  Someone there will definitely have one.

Calum:
hmm, i would prefer to get one in the UK, let me see if there's a group in the UK on LEM.

in the meantime, i did some reading, and downloaded all the stuff for installing 7.5.5 ie: the 19 disk images for 7.5.3 and the three update disks to 7.5.5 however i immediately discovered these two confusingly conflicting pages and now i don't know if i want to use 6 instead of 7. i know 6 is what it would have come with originally, but 7 sounds like it has a lot of enhancements which 6 will simply not have. on the other hand i do not need support for a 4GB hard drive right now, and probably won't ever on this mac, so what to do? the arguments seem to be 6 is small and efficient, and 7.5 is stable and reliable.
Why system 6?
More System 6 Advocacy
Why system 7.5?

next, i have apt-getted macutils so hopefully, with the internet's help it won't be too hard to convert my disk images (confusingly they are smi.bin files, part.bin files or sea.hqx files. this little comment makes me a little more aware of how to use macutils to get at these but i'm still a bit at sea. basically i simply want to find out what manipulation needs to go on before the files are ready to be written to floppies using dd (also i have a USB floppy drive, fedora doesn't (for an unknown reason) recognise the one attached internally to the motherboard. this is fedora's fault, it does it despite reinstalls even though other systems have no problem seeing this drive). or, will i have to use some other method of making the floppies, like just unpacking all the files and dragging and dropping?

one small question for the floor (other people than bedouin can answer you know!), the mac currently has word 5 installed (the oldest vrsion anybody i know has ever had installed, i was unable to install word 4 on my old laptop PC running windows ME, back in the day), is there some free office software i can get which will save in a relatively popular format? i am not keen on the idea of having to save things to floppies, fire up the "real" computer and then reopen it in OO.o just to resave in a more modern format. A reformat and reinstallation of the system (which is what i want to do on the mac, since it seems to have had a lot of stuff brutally deleted before being thrown out) will obviously erase the existing word installation. or can i back word up? perhaps i can simply copy a file to a floppy and copy back afterwards, does this seem feasible? perhaps this is slanderous, libelou and traitorous on this site to even suggest such a thing...

here's what i have downloaded anyway.


--- Code: ---[calum@localhost MacOS_System7.5]$ ls
Disk_Copy_6.3.3.smi.bin        System_7.5.3_06of19.part.bin
iCab_Pre2.97_English_68k.sit   System_7.5.3_07of19.part.bin
MacDraw.dsk.sea.hqx            System_7.5.3_08of19.part.bin
stuffit_expander_55.hqx        System_7.5.3_09of19.part.bin
Sys_7.5.5_Update-1of3.sea.hqx  System_7.5.3_10of19.part.bin
Sys_7.5.5_Update-2of3.sea.hqx  System_7.5.3_11of19.part.bin
Sys_7.5.5_Update-3of3.sea.hqx  System_7.5.3_12of19.part.bin
Sys_7.5.5_Update-Q_and_A.txt   System_7.5.3_13of19.part.bin
Sys_7.5.5_Update_Tips.txt      System_7.5.3_14of19.part.bin
Sys_7.5.5_Update.txt           System_7.5.3_15of19.part.bin
System_7.5.3_01of19.smi.bin    System_7.5.3_16of19.part.bin
System_7.5.3_02of19.part.bin   System_7.5.3_17of19.part.bin
System_7.5.3_03of19.part.bin   System_7.5.3_18of19.part.bin
System_7.5.3_04of19.part.bin   System_7.5.3_19of19.part.bin
System_7.5.3_05of19.part.bin

--- End code ---




i think i will just buy that netgear thing then. we used to use them as standard at my old work, and they seemed fairly reliable, and yes you are right i can't imagine wanting to plug anything other than the mac into it.

edit: and am i right in thinking that because this hub only does one network speed, this means it is not autosensing and is therefore compatible with the rest of the proposed hardware?


thanks all for your input, and sorry if all these questions etc are a bit boring, a new project always gets me thinking in 20 different directions at once.

piratePenguin:
You could just use any text editor..

Calum:
for what?

(yes i know the obvious answer, but i don't think any of my questions were "what can i use to edit text with?")

PS: penguin, you have an incredibly good signature quote, my hat is off!

pps: my golly gosh, i found this fab howto for installing system 7.5 from scratch however it is like a recipe for goat and gnat cheese soup written in polish by a mathematician to me (ie: i can't understand quite a lot of it): http://web.whittier.edu/comp/macguide/Clean.cfm

hopefully i can use this as a learning experience.

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